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Of Mutability
About this book
Jo Shapcott's award-winning first three collections, gathered in
Her Book: Poems 1988-1998, revealed her to be a writer of ingenuous, politically acute and provocative poetry, and rightly earned her a reputation as one of the most original and daring voices of her generation. In
Of Mutability, Shapcott is found writing at her most memorable and bold. In a series of poems that explore the nature of change - in the body and the natural world, and in the shifting relationships between people - these poems look freshly but squarely at mortality. By turns grave and playful, arresting and witty, the poems in
Of Mutability celebrate each waking moment as though it might be the last, and in so doing restore wonder to the to the smallest of encounters.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Contents
- Of Mutability
- Era
- La Serenissima
- Deft
- The Oval Pool
- Hairless
- Riddle
- Abishag
- The Deaths
- Scorpion
- Religion for Girls
- Religion for Boys
- The Death of Iris
- St Bride’s
- Sinfonietta for London
- Gherkin Music
- La Canterina
- Shapcott’s Variation on Schoenberg’s Orchestration of Bach’s Prelude and Fugue in E major, ‘St Anne’
- The Black Page
- The Gypsies’ Tales of Ovid
- Aleko
- His ’n’ Hers
- Somewhat Unravelled
- Tea Death
- The Bet
- All Flesh Is
- Alternative
- Night Flight from Muncaster
- Border Cartography
- I Go Inside the Tree
- My Oak
- Cedar of Lebanon
- Trasimeno Olive
- Cypress
- Shrubbery
- For Summer
- Where I Worked
- Forecast
- Viral Landscape
- Myself Photographed
- Uncertainty is Not a Good Dog
- Composition
- Stargazer
- Procedure
- Piss Flower
- Acknowledgements
- About the Author
- By the Same Author
- Copyright
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